{"id":613,"date":"2013-04-25T13:56:03","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T20:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/?p=613"},"modified":"2013-04-25T14:18:45","modified_gmt":"2013-04-25T21:18:45","slug":"fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/fail\/","title":{"rendered":"Fail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have several guesses about why I failed so hard today. The obvious first choice is that I haven&#8217;t been able to sleep very well for several days. I have been anxious about the post office misplacing 2 of the 4 checks I mailed at tax time. One was tracked until it left the sorting facility, and the other was never tracked at all. I think the anxiety over those missing checks didn&#8217;t help my sleep situation any. Luckily, one of the checks cleared my checking account this morning, so I&#8217;m hopeful the post office just forgot to track my checks and didn&#8217;t actually lose them.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s another one of those amazingly beautiful San Diego days today, so I was looking forward to getting outside all morning. Right before lunch time I got a little anxious about the run, but I was feeling good. I stepped out the door to start my run and immediately rolled my ankle. I hadn&#8217;t even started yet and I knew I was in for some trouble.<\/p>\n<p>I thought I might be fine, so I headed out on my normal 10k route. I hadn&#8217;t gotten too far when it was obvious to me that it wasn&#8217;t going to be business as usual, so I headed down to the trail along the 56 freeway where the running trail is in the nice sand that&#8217;s easier on my joints. I spent a lot of time switching between jogging and walking, but I eventually made my way back home. I&#8217;m not impressed at all with my performance, but hopefully I&#8217;ll be back ready for some serious biking by this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>My heart rate monitor was fully charged when I started, but it stopped tracking just a few minutes in to the run. If this was the first or even the second time that had happened I might forgive it, but I&#8217;m really upset about it. It&#8217;s not critical that I record my heart rate, but I paid good money for this piece of equipment and I expect it to work. It doesn&#8217;t work at all when I ride my bike and it only seems to work about half the time when I run. My advice to you: Do not buy a Zephyr heart rate monitor. They suck.<\/p>\n<p>RunKeeper: <a href=\"https:\/\/runkeeper.com\/user\/jtalbot\/activity\/172031547\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/runkeeper.com\/user\/jtalbot\/activity\/172031547<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Strava:<br \/>\n<iframe height='405' width='590' frameborder='0' allowtransparency='true' scrolling='no' src='https:\/\/app.strava.com\/activities\/50684460\/embed\/744683d3e89282fae9eb477736e2c171ad409cda'><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have several guesses about why I failed so hard today. The obvious first choice is that I haven&#8217;t been able to sleep very well for several days. I have been anxious about the post office misplacing 2 of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/fail\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,16,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-equipment","category-runkeeper","category-running"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":614,"href":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613\/revisions\/614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}